The short story “A good man is hard to find“ by Flannery O’Conner is about an innocent family who is killed by a stranger but in reality it’s a killer. Flannery O’Conner uses situational, symbolic, character and setting archetype throughout the story. Situational archetype is when a plot is seen reapted across many types of work. In the short story it seems that when a family goes on a road trip to somewhere that they don’t know well usually ends up being bad, as in this story they didn’t know about the Misfit being loose from jail. Symbolic archetype is an object that carries meaning throughout the whole story or parts of the story. In the sort story, the grandma’s cat was a symbol of bad luck. Because when the family crashes while going on
